Pa. teen faces charges in MySpace threat probe

Monday

Oct 29, 2007 at 12:01 AMOct 29, 2007 at 4:33 AM

A cyber-school student who lives in the Waynesboro Area School District is facing 34 counts of making terroristic threats and 34 counts of harassment for allegedly posting threats against students last month on a MySpace page.

Nancy Mace

A cyber-school student who lives in the Waynesboro Area School District is facing 34 counts of making terroristic threats and 34 counts of harassment for allegedly posting threats against students last month on a MySpace page.

The 17-year-old also faces a charge of making a false report to law enforcement authorities for allegedly telling police a female student at Waynesboro Area Senior High School was responsible for the profanity-laced “Waynesboro Sluts!” page, according to Waynesboro Police Chief Ray Shultz.

The juvenile will have the opportunity to admit or deny his involvement in the incident at a juvenile hearing that has not been scheduled, Shultz said.

If convicted of the crimes, the 17-year-old could be sentenced to up to five years in a juvenile detention facility for each of the terroristic threat charges, up to one year on each of the harassment charges and up to two years on the false report charge, according to Shultz.

On Sept. 4, the page was brought to the attention of school district officials, who then notified police, Shultz said.

The teen facing the charges called police the next day and said a female student may have used his home computer to post the threats, according to Shultz.

Police served a number of search warrants during the investigation, including one on Oct. 12 at the home of the 17-year-old, Shultz said.

“We removed his computer and he advised police that he did it and nobody else was involved,” according to Shultz.